A group of four people gather around a person in a bed, seen through an open doorway to our left, while a man and woman stand near a second doorway of a beige building in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale skin. Seen through the arched opening in the room to our left, two people with flat, plate-like gold halos offer a vessel to the person sitting up in bed. The people with the halos wear raspberry-pink and white cloaks over aquamarine-blue robes. They each also wear a cap with a red, mushroom-like top over a white band that encircles the head. The person sitting up in bed…
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The Healing of Palladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian

Fra Angelico (Florentine, c. 1395 - 1455)

c. 1438/1440

Medium
tempera and oil on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 36.2 × 46.3 cm (14 1/4 × 18 1/4 in.) ; framed: 50.17 × 59.69 × 8.89 cm (19 3/4 × 23 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.) ; support: 38.1 × 47.5 cm (15 × 18 11/16 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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